BILL DRUMMOND – THE 25 PAINTINGS
2014-03-17‘The 25 Paintings’ represents the climax of Drummond’s prodigious and eclectic art career begun in 1976 when he designed and built the stage sets for the 12-hour play ‘Illuminatus’ at the National Theatre in London. Since that time Drummond’s artwork has taken a multitude of forms including writing and performing music, managing bands, running record labels, forming art foundations, writing, publishing, lecturing, painting, making soup and giving away bunches of daffodils.
‘The 25 Paintings’ is the twenty fifth exhibition at Eastside Projects and exists within the gallery and across the city of Birmingham as Drummond works Wednesday-Thursday around the city and Friday-Saturday in the gallery. The central motif of the exhibition is the ‘25 Paintings’ alluded to in the title but Drummond describes his work as sculpture. The sculpture ‘The 25 Paintings’ began in 2001 and will be complete on 28 April 2025 at the end of the ‘World Tour’.
The twenty five paintings exist primarily to act as markers, signposts and advertisements for the work the artist will be carrying out across Birmingham through to June. The exhibition includes the ’25 paintings’, ‘The 60 Posters’, ‘The 25 Sixty Second Films’, three publications – ‘The 25 Paintings’, ‘MAN MAKES BED’, and ‘MAN SHINES SHOES’ – and ten lectures including three at Eastside Projects entitled ‘Art Versus Money’, ‘Painting Versus Sculpture’ and ‘Life Versus Death’.
Exhibition runs through to June 14th, 2014
Eastside Projects
86 Heath Mill Lane
Birmingham
B9 4A
